An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
Books & Profiles
Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden
Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp
This book offers a new view of the Okefenokee, its inhabitants, and its rich and telling record of thwarted ambitions, unintended consequences, and unresolved questions.
Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
Science and International Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany
Tthe first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany.
Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.